# A Christmas Carol (1938)

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**Runtime**: 69 min
**Genres**: Drama, Fantasy, Family
**Directed by**: Edwin L. Marin
**Written by**: Hugo Butler
**Starring**: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Terry Kilburn, Barry MacKay, Lynne Carver, Leo G. Carroll

> *Greater than "David Copperfield"!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A miser spends one night dodging ghosts who keep insistently shoving his past, present, and future in his face. After a series of increasingly uncomfortable flashbacks, he reconsiders his life choices between now and sunrise. Time’s up—either he changes, or the story ends.

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